Mammals from the Arctic and beyond

An Etruscan shrew from SE Asia (c) L. Olson

The Mammal Collection includes over 110,000 specimens, mostly from Alaska and adjacent regions of Canada and Russia. There are world-class holdings of northern carnivores, including pinnipeds, and extensive chronological series of carnivores, shrews, and rodents. Tissues for more than 70,000 specimens are archived in Genomic Resources.